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<span class=large>HOSEA</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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Worshipping false gods brings severe judgments upon Israel—In the last days they shall be reconciled to God and become his people.
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Say</span> ye unto your brethren, <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/1a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE My people.">Ammi</a>; and to your sisters, <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/2/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE Having obtained mercy.">Ruhamah</a>.
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Plead with your <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 50: 1.">mother</a>, plead: for she <i>is</i> not my wife, neither <i>am</i> I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
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Lest I <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 13: 22.">strip</a> her <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/2/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 16: 7 (7-15).">naked</a>, and set her as in the day that she was <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/2/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ezek. 16: 4.">born</a>, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with <sup>d</sup><a href="hosea/2/3d" mark="d" type="A" title="Amos 8: 11.">thirst</a>.
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And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they <i>be</i> the children of whoredoms.
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For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Shame.">shamefully</a>: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give <i>me</i> my <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/2/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 44: 17 (15-17).">bread</a> and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
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&#182; Therefore, behold, I will <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 3: 7 (7-8).">hedge</a> up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find <i>them:</i> then shall she say, I will go and return to my first <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 16: 32 (8, 32, 38).">husband</a>; for then <i>was it</i> better with me than now.
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For she did not know that I gave her <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/8a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB grain; Deut. 7: 13; Ezek. 16: 19 (17-19).">corn</a>, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, <i>which</i> they prepared for Baal.
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Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax <i>given</i> to cover her nakedness.
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And now will I discover her <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Lam. 1: 8.">lewdness</a> in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
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I will also cause all her <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 7: 34.">mirth</a> to <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/2/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 24: 8 (7-11).">cease</a>, her feast days, her new <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/2/11c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 1: 14 (10-15).">moons</a>, and her <sup>d</sup><a href="hosea/2/11d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Sabbath.">sabbaths</a>, and all her <sup>e</sup><a href="hosea/2/11e" mark="e" type="A" title="Lam. 1: 4.">solemn</a> feasts.
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And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These <i>are</i> my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.
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And I will visit upon her the days of <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 3: 7; Hosea 11: 2.">Baalim</a>, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/2/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 4: 30; Ezek. 23: 40.">earrings</a> and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 20: 35.">wilderness</a>, and speak comfortably unto her.
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And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/15a" mark="a" type="E" title="IE Trouble; Josh. 7: 26; Isa. 65: 10.">Achor</a> for a door of hope: and she shall <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/2/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 15: 1 (1, 20).">sing</a> there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
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And it shall be at that <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 2: 11; Isa. 52: 6; Zech. 9: 16.">day</a>, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, <i>that</i> thou shalt call me <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/2/16b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE My husband.">Ishi</a>; and shalt call me no more <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/2/16c" mark="c" type="D" title="IE My master.">Baali</a>.
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For I will take away the names of <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 23: 13.">Baalim</a> out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
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And in that day will I make a <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 31: 33 (31-34); Morm. 5: 20; D&C 45: 9.">covenant</a> for them with the <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/2/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="Job 5: 23.">beasts</a> of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and <i>with</i> the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/2/18c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Millennium; TG Peace.">safely</a>.
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And I will <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Abrahamic Covenant.">betroth</a> thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
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I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 17: 3.">know</a> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
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And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
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And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/2/23a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB lo-ruhamah.">her</a> that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/2/23b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB lo-ammi."><i>them</i></a> which were not my <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/2/23c" mark="c" type="A" title="Rom. 9: 25.">people</a>, Thou <i>art</i> my <sup>d</sup><a href="hosea/2/23d" mark="d" type="A" title="Jer. 30: 22; Zech. 13: 9.">people</a>; and they shall say, <i>Thou art</i> my God.
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